chilldream

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by chilldream 13y ago
I spent several years traveling only by public transit and running into beggars at least twice a day. During that same period, I also once had a cop pull up to a bus stop, start harassing me and actually threaten to arrest me for standing t
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by chilldream 13y ago
I started Learn You a Haskell a couple days ago on a lark and I'm also loving it. I've also heard a lot of praise for Real World Haskell which I plan to look at next.
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by chilldream 13y ago
As someone who gets hit by reverse identity theft[1] regularly, I'm convinced that requiring anything other than "proof that the email address is actually yours" makes you scum. If your only point of contact with a customer i
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by chilldream 13y ago
> Authors have the legal right to go after fans, but choose not to? This is actually pretty much exactly how it works. Fan fiction is generally a "derivative work" but most creators and publishers realize that there is no real
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by chilldream 13y ago
Teaching Shakespeare should only happen with students who are already literate. This discussion is about people who are learning to read.
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by chilldream 13y ago
It seems to me that she addressed those exact concerns: > So, yes, it is possible that, in 2004, nobody at RSA had any articulable suspicions about Dual EC. They may have taken it on faith that this was another DES situation where the N
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by chilldream 13y ago
Nintendo is and has always been an outlier when it comes to clamping down on "their" IP. This is the company that tried to sue Blockbuster for renting games (the fallout from this suit is why rental games didn't come with the
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by chilldream 13y ago
Some people on YouTube play entire video games start to finish without even adding any kind of commentary. On the other end of things, you have things like some of the stuff mentioned in the article, or that TotalBiscuit/Garry's I
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by chilldream 13y ago
There's an old legend about an artist (I want to say a musician) that took the same tack: if anyone asked him if they should try to go pro, he said no. He figured the people who should wouldn't take his advice.
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by chilldream 13y ago
The fuckit context manager is actually pretty close to a real feature in Python 3.4: https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi/pull/202
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by chilldream 13y ago
sologrrl: You seem to be hellbanned (I looked through your comments and didn't see anything objectionable, so I guess you tripped something automated)
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by chilldream 13y ago
> most unexpected behaviour in js comes from people not knowing the language Isn't this just a rationalization? Any unexpected behavior is by definition something the user didn't know to expect.
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by chilldream 13y ago
imo the best argument for randomized algorithms is that you may want to show more "underexposed" articles without seeing all of them. The issue with deterministic algos is that you basically have two options: - Treat new things
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by chilldream 13y ago
MATE is the most popular Gnome 2 fork for people who hate GNOME 3. Cinnamon appears to be an attempt to adopt some of the good qualities of Unity but without the drawbacks.
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by chilldream 13y ago
I love these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALFvB-UWaxg (Chrono Trigger in less than 4 minutes)
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by chilldream 13y ago
It's neat how many glitches people have found in these particular games. A couple other Pokemon "arbitrary code" hacks (in the Yellow version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UnB1fomvAw (Pi day celebration)
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by chilldream 13y ago
scala> 5 + "5" res0: String = 55
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by chilldream 13y ago
You start with an integer and end up with a string. The intermediate steps required to get from one to the other aren't particularly relevant to the point I was making.
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by chilldream 13y ago
The thing is, it's not just an overload; it's an overload and a typecast. Those are two separate questions, and OP is really complaining about the typecast, not the overload. The ints vs. floats thing is kind of a red herring. I
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by chilldream 13y ago
The issue isn't what `print` does. It's what `"5"+5` does. Even Ruby and Python throw a ValueError there.
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by chilldream 13y ago
There's only so much oversight such a bureau can have, especially if a company is willing to lie to them. According to Popehat, they've also done things like falsely list positive BBB ratings on their website, so it's not har
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by chilldream 13y ago
Here's a non-exhaustive list of annoyances just off the top of my head: - The site uses a lot of JavaScript but seems to assume everything will be loaded immediately. I've had days where my connection is slower than usual and t
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by chilldream 13y ago
Completion rates are a red herring for a variety of reasons. The biggest is the total lack of risk inherent in joining a free class with no transcript. In college you should be more conservative about enrolling for classes because you can r
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by chilldream 13y ago
I recently saw this (which goes into far more depth): http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2013/11/18/the-homogenization... Summary: "Constantly switching languages is a chore, and while Python isn't
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by chilldream 13y ago
Some added commentary from a lawyer: http://www.popehat.com/2013/11/21/wordpress-goes-on-the-offe...
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by chilldream 13y ago
> Right but the use of men by women is almost always negative and dehumanizing. I'm 30 and I haven't seen this be the case anywhere ever. I have encountered some people who condescendingly use "boys" when they want
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by chilldream 13y ago
BTW I have my own story about this. I actually have two Google accounts, my "real" one and the one I use to joke around on video game clips on YouTube. When Google strongarmed the second one into g+, I knew that even if I decided
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by chilldream 13y ago
Man, I didn't. Did you notice that if you get a notification about a video, and then click the notification to watch it, the video continues to play in that dinky little notifications feed taking up like 1/5th of the screen at mos
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by chilldream 13y ago
So I guess you also missed the part where her comment showed up on her real name and it surprised her? (and let me ask in advance not to give me that "she may have accidentally clicked some button on one of those popups and given permi
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by chilldream 13y ago
You'd think they'd have learned from that woman whose info got sent to a stalker ex by the Google Buzz account she didn't want.

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